Slobokan made a quick comment on a movement to make the Christmas Tree a Holiday Tree

It reminds me of the following newspaper clipping that I keep in my bible to teach our children about the Christmas Tree. It is a kind reminder to us grown-ups how much Jesus has blessed us with joy in eachother’s lives and lovely sunrises and sunsets to light up our days.

The Christmas Tree
by Thales Kaster

I was inspired to write these words after reading the many Christmas stories written by my 6th grade pupils. I think the Christmas tree symbolizes in a most poignant manner, the birth, death and resurrection of Christ Jesus:

“I stand up majestically erect, like a proud centurion.
Many are those who bow and kneel before me, for I am adorned for my unmatched splendor and decorations that few men ever receive in a lifetime.
Thrown at my feet are gifts that even Babe-Jesus never received from all the kinds and Wise Men who came from far-away lands to see and praise Him.
Then suddenly, I am stripped of all my glory, to stand alone, naked outside in the cold, waiting for a garbage can or fireplace to claim me.
Such is my fate, and like Jesus, whose symbol I represent, I am first adorned, worshipped, then discarded for the New Year Star. And when men become battered and tattered, they will humbly, once again, seek my refuge.”

We wish for each and every one of you a joyous and loving reminder of what that beautiful evergreen tree represents.